Luminous5481
@Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus
Queer anarchist, avid sci-fi and fantasy fan, and enjoyer of locally run genAI.
I have direct messages turned off. If you need to contact me privately, you can do so over Matrix.
- Comment on Indie Pass, a Subscription Service for Indie Games, Launches on PC - IGN 3 weeks ago:
The thought process is I don’t pay for things I can get for free.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 3 weeks ago:
If only there was some kind of solution to be found.
- Comment on Indie Pass, a Subscription Service for Indie Games, Launches on PC - IGN 3 weeks ago:
you don’t need a subscription to use bittorrent.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 4 weeks ago:
The game was trash on the PC, and they thought that downgrading it to a console was going to make it playable?
- Comment on You need to install an extension to reject cookies in websites that use Google Analytics 4 weeks ago:
uBlock has all the same functions as NoScript, if you enable the advanced user mode.
- Comment on It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat 4 weeks ago:
with the amount of information they collect on their customers, it better be damn good. honestly, the only reason it’s not a huge privacy problem is because they zealously guard that data to protect their near monopoly on PC gaming.
Gabe has been pandering to gamers and mostly giving us what we want, but when he dies, we better hope the next dude in charge isn’t some corporate suit that only cares about maximizing profits in every way that they can, or the enshitification of Steam is going to really fucking hurt. imagine if Valve was run like Microsoft. for example, the next guy might cut a deal with Microsoft to stop supporting Proton.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 4 weeks ago:
What’s this “we” bit? I’ve never paid them anything, and I still don’t see ads.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 weeks ago:
No. For example, I’ve seen a lot of games use Unreal, and almost all of them ran perfectly fine. It’s almost always the dev or publisher at fault for a shitty game. Usually the publisher, in the case of AAA games.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 4 weeks ago:
gaming started getting expensive when micro-transactions became a thing. AI is just the latest fad they can blame their price gouging on. because when the AI bubble pops, that PS5 ain’t going back down in price.
- Comment on You need to install an extension to reject cookies in websites that use Google Analytics 5 weeks ago:
Technically uBlock is still an extension.
yes, and it’s an extension that anyone using the fediverse almost certainly already has installed.
- Comment on You need to install an extension to reject cookies in websites that use Google Analytics 5 weeks ago:
No you didn’t? Just block it with uBlock, which you need to make the web usable in the first place.
- Comment on Bethesda has released a major update for Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on Nintendo Switch 2, significantly improving the overall experience on the console. 5 weeks ago:
the best way to improve Fallout 4 performance on the Switch 2 is to play it on Steam Deck instead
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I do too! no joke, pork rinds are one of my favorite snacks. my local gas station sells Mac’s, so I drop in for a bag and a brew when I want to treat myself.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Do the people at the kebab shop read English? Just because they can speak it doesn’t mean they’re literate.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 5 weeks ago:
wait has it always been that much? I feel like I didn’t pay that much back when I bought it years ago.
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 5 weeks ago:
I saw a bathroom like this that had the metal thing for you to pull the door open with your foot instead.
The door required the handle to be turned in order for it to open.
- Comment on Rec Room will be shutting down June 1st, 2026 5 weeks ago:
What a shame, my kids loved this.
- Comment on Rec Room will be shutting down June 1st, 2026 5 weeks ago:
Did you wake up in a bad mood, or is this just the personality everyone who is misfortunate enough to meet you is stuck with?
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 1 month ago:
Doesn’t really matter to me, because I was going to pirate it the same as I do any game, AAA or indie.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 1 month ago:
You can’t steal something you copied, because nothing has been taken, and the concept of owning ideas is ridiculous anyway. Not to mention morality is subjective.
Pirate everything, because everything is yours as much as it is the original creators.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 1 month ago:
Pirating the game and using those assets was always fine, no matter the circumstances, company, artist, or developer. Copyright and intellectual property is an illusion the capitalist class uses to exclude the poor from ideas they feel they can profit from.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s an optional field in the user record your distro can make use of if they want.
- Comment on Street Fighter 6’s Latest DLC Ending Is Upsetting Fans Because Alex Marries His Sister-Cousin 1 month ago:
Well alrighty then.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 1 month ago:
Everybody is shitty and the whole universe sucks and sometimes not even dying can save you.
- Comment on A communist and an anarchist walk into a bar.. 1 month ago:
MLs really do be like that, not able to carry through a revolution without depending on anarchists. talks tough in the sheets, but is weak in the streets.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 month ago:
If you want something privacy focused, then LibreWolf is a Firefox fork widely acclaimed for their work. Otherwise Waterfox is a very popular and high quality fork.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 month ago:
They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
a for-profit company partially funded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, of Palantir fame. the same Palantir spying on Americans in order to allow nazis to round up immigrants and throw them into concentration camps. the same Peter Thiel that said democracy is not compatible with freedom.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
I’m looking forward to seeing this utilized in games.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 month ago:
Licenses only matter if you care about copyright. I’d much rather just appropriate whatever I want, whenever I want, for whatever I want. Copyright is capitalist nonsense and I just don’t respect notions of who “owns” what.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t really think so, GabeN. Loot boxes should go the way of the dinosaurs.